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" I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues. "

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" I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. "

" I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized; people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job. "

" People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born. "

" Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed. "

" Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime. "

" The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies. "

" The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux. "

" I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places. "

" You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior. "

" Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. "

" I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other. "

" What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt. "

" I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. "

" The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return. "

" I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat. "

" In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny. "

" It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring. "

" There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is. "

" Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all. "

" Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral. "

" In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved. "

" The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail. "

" Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day. "

" I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly. "

" I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat. "

" Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'. "

" I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. "

" In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary. "

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" Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life. "

" There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems. "